Plum’s sister!

[HazeyJaney]

Help please! We chose a very unusual name for our first daughter (Plum Elizabeth) and now we’re stuck on what to name her sister. Our current list feels a bit pedestrian in comparison, does it matter?

We like:

Alice
Flora
Gaia
Cecily
Beatrix
Sylvie
Merryn
Iris (actually, I’ve always loved Isis, but it’s obviously unusable now)

@TatianaLarina Sounding a bit racist there, love.

When I was young, plum was slang for testicle - hoping that’s not the case anymore?! 🤷‍♀️

How about Margot?

I always thought Plum was a nick name for Victoria, we call my cousin Plum for short

Plum is cute and memorable

Your right there

Marigold
Ostara

There’s a Plum in DD‘s year (teenage, so not the same one unless you have a very big age gap). Must ask if she has any sisters.

Tatiana’s post is not racist. I live in a multicultural area and there are all sorts of names. Plum would not stand out at all. As I said, my neighbour is called Plum, in its Chinese form, and it is a common name. How about Prunella? Is that OK? Revered British actress Prunella Scales? That means plum too. How about Cherry or Olive or Clementine - fruits? Or Honey or Saffron or Rosemary- other foods? Or Rowan or Willow or Hazel -other trees?

Exactly.

@daisypond but is it really a common Chinese name? I know your neighbour is 'called that', but that's not actually her birth given name is it? It's just an ''Anglicised name' that she's chosen to use. There's sometimes been quite a complexity to some older Chinese nationals choosing a 'British moniker' to adopt if they become expats, and it's nothing even close to a literal word translation. Not so much these days, but we've got friends who relocated to the UK 20+yrs ago with what could be considered 'interesting' English names they adopted. Like I said it's complicated.

She uses her Chinese name that means plum. She doesn’t call herself the anglicised “plum”.

I used to look after a little plum years ago and her sister was Daphne 😊

Xanthe
Perdita
Raine
Gwendolyn
Ember

Plum Elizabeth..

Apple Charlotte

I'd expect a Plum to have a sister called:

Kitty
Lavender
Cleo
Lettie
Marnie
Flora

I'd then pair it with a traditional middle:
Kitty Charlotte
Lavender Mary
Cleo Eleanor
Lettie Alexandra
Marnie Olivia
Flora Harriet

Being called 布冧 and knowing that it means plum and is an established personal name in your heritage language isn't really the same as being called the English word Plum...

Supposedly James means "supplanter", but bring called James isn't analogous to having Supplanter as your birth certificate name...

• disclaimer I googled the information above so it may be incorrect, like 99% of random internet forum posts...

It’s like being called Olive not James.

Olive means... olive.

I appreciate all the comments and suggestions, some really nice ideas and many we hadn’t considered before, so thank you for those.

I’m going to step away from this now since it’s become a debate on Plum, which wasn’t the point and is pretty irrelevant since she’s already named. I’m not naive enough to think that everybody loves it, but I promise that it’s not proven to be a big deal in real life. I get more questions about my (normal, but unusually spelt) name than about Plum.

I don’t understand why this post has turned into people slagging off OPs existing daughter’s name. On so many posts I see people claiming it’s bad taste to do just that, seems to have been forgotten here though?
I would go for a more subtle nature/botanical name:
Rose
Wren
Daisy
Iris
Or maybe something like Posy, Lark, Eira

I love Plum! Quirky and fun but easy to spell, unusual and yet clearly feminine. It is a tough one to follow!
Either follow the quirky or go very straight. Your choices are the quirky side of middle so do appear pedestrian in comparison.
Example quirky:
Russet, Bunny, Lupin,
Example straight:
Ann, Joan, Rachel, Ruth.

What about another pink/purple/red name...

Beetroot?

Love the name Plum but please don't use Peach or Pear.

How about Sorrel?

@HazeyJaney I believe you it’s not a big deal in real life as I actually know a little girl called Plum! I admit I did have a little giggle at first but I’m totally used to the name now and think it’s cool ! Great choice!

I vote alice for DD2

Oh, OP, I'd love to know what you name her in the end. Sorrel is beautiful, btw, but so are your other choices. And Plum is cute. I'm so sorry you've had such a going over here, some people can be real shits.